Prof. Rosalía Serna

Rosalía Serna is a Research Professor of CSIC (Spanish Research Council) at the Instituto de Optica (Madrid, Spain) since 2009. She is a project leader and founding member of the Laser Processing Group (http://www.io.csic.es/Web_GPL/index.html). She is co-author of more than 150 publications and 3 book chapters in the fields of applied physics, optics, nanotechnology and materials science. She has co-authored more than 200 conference contributions, including more than 25 invited talks at major international conferences.
During the last decade she has conducted research in two main topics using laser techniques as a means of nanostructuration to obtain functionalized films for integrated optical applications such as integrated waveguides, optical amplifiers, light emitters, and sensors. Within this context one line of current interest is the study of non-conventional nanostructured materials for plasmonics, such as Bi nanostructures and in general p-block materials. The other current line of research is the study of rare-earth doped nanostructures.